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As a schoolgirl in the 1930s, Eugenie Clark spent countless hours pressed up to the tanks at a New York City aquarium, absorbed by the alligators, sea turtles and hundreds of species of fish just beyond the glass.
There was one creature, however, that...

Naperville teens are finding what a wonderful world it can be because they know much about biology, science books, algebra and trigonometry.
For instance, what element makes up the innermost core of a Type II supernova just before core collapse? In...

U.S. scientists following endangered killer whales from a research vessel have spotted a baby orca off the coast of Washington state, the third birth documented this winter but still leaving the population dangerously low.
The research crew observed...

Nebraska's longest-serving senator vowed Thursday to outlaw mountain lion hunting in Nebraska even if he has to circumvent a legislative committee to bring it to a vote.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha said Nebraska's mountain lion population is so small...

Bumblebees are just as guilty of merging memories as NBC anchor Brian Williams, it turns out.
A new study, published online Thursday in the journal Current Biology, suggests that Bombus terrestris is prone to a type of memory error common among humans...

Consumption of emulsifiers, additives widely used in the production of processed foods, promotes inflammatory bowel disease and a cluster of obesity-related diseases known as metabolic syndrome, and may have contributed to the sharp rise in these...

Jaws emerge through murky waters, clamping down on an underwater photographer sent into a South Florida canal's unseen dangers.
Yet the alligator bite doesn't affect this remote controlled, mini submarine, deployed by the South Florida Water Management...

An annual report finds that wolves continued to grow in numbers and spread across Oregon in 2014, while livestock-attack cases were down.
The report released Tuesday by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will be a key document as the state Fish...

Nineteen manatees were rescued from a drainage system in Florida after a 10-hour mission that involved digging up a portion of roadway and sawing open a large pipe.
The mission could be one of the largest manatee rescues on record, said Brandon Basino,...

Biologists have long debated whether bigger is better.
A Stanford team now has proof that evolution favors growth: the researchers found that many lineages of sea creatures have evolved into behemoths.
In one of the most comprehensive studies of the...

Alyce Walker, a spry 87, walks around the nearly four-acre plot where her relatives are buried and stops at a towering live oak.
"That's where Reverend Abe Tillman was lynched, in 1920," says Walker, the caretaker of the African American Spring Hill...